Matthew Daniell
Guest Teacher
Matthew has been practicing Buddhist meditation for over 35 years. He spent over a decade in Asia practicing Insight meditation in Burma, India, and Thailand (where he was an ordained monk for about a year).
His Asian Insight Meditation teachers include monks in the Thai Forest Tradition, meditating with Ajahn Cha, Ajahn Maha Bowa, etc. His Asian lay teachers include Dipama and Munindra from the Burmese tradition.
Matthew teaches locally and nationally at various retreat centers, including the Omega Institute, Kripalu, the Philadelphia Meditation Center, and CIMC. Matthew was a co-founder of the IMC Newburyport and its primary and guiding teacher (2005-2022). He is the founder and guiding teacher of the newly forming North Shore Insight Meditation Center (NorthshoreIMC.org), which has begun holding classes and retreats at various locations and online. He enjoys working collaboratively with the greater Insight Mediation community in the area.